English > New World flycatcher: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing. |
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Synonyms | flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird |
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Member of | Tyrannidae, superfamily Tyrannidae | New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada |
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Narrower | cotinga, chatterer | passerine bird of New World tropics |
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kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus | large American flycatcher |
pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens | small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America |
phoebe, phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe | small dun-colored North American flycatcher |
scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher, Muscivora-forficata | Grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings |
vermillion flycatcher, firebird, Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus | Tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona |
Broader | tyrannid | A passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni |
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Spanish | myiarchus |
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